Whew.  Part 1 went through without too many formatting hitches, hopefully part 2 will as well.

Actually, we were up to step three in the stitch, weren't we?  Let's get on with it.

( part two unfolds... )

So, since I got one picture to go through, I'm going to try to break the GST post into two, one right after the other (sort of).

By the way, I apologize if anything is lost in the pictures - I had to reduce them considerably so my intarwebs service could handle the uploads.  The text part of the posts isn't the problem - I compose them in word ( Read more... )

Ah, the hell wth it.  I can't keep apologizing for not writing.

We've got people coming this weekend, and I've gotten the place ready.  In between moving things into their proper places, cleaning, fighting dust mastodons and vacuuming, I've been working on my jacket.

Well, the fill stitching is done.  1287.5 hours, 1410.5 yards of thread, a new ( Read more... )

I have a big post in the works - -more than one ( Read more... )

More things that come to mind...

Oh, everything.  None of this is going to be in any knid of chronological order - it's not like my mind has any such level of sophisticated organization, so it comes as it comes.  I just wanted to talk some more about my favourite jacket.

( Pretty! )

Oof.  Okay, so England.  The United (mostly) Kingdom.  Old Blighty.  Other names.

It was an amazing trip.  I have a lot of new information, but, the legal thingies I signed say I can't actually show you any of the photos I took, since the images of the items are the intellectual (but not physical, since I hold the photos in my hot sweaty paws) ( Read more... )

Don't give up on me yet, people - I've been dealing with teeth problems, and believe me, I don't want to listen to myself whine about the constant headaches, so you definitely don't want to hear about it.  I've spent the last couple of weeks fighting off constant headaches (my least favourite kind of pain) and trying not to clench my teeth so hard ( Read more... )

Hey there!

I've been hella busy (does anyone still use that phrase any more?) writing for work and for University, so I haven't exactly been raring to write here.

However, the first jacket piece has complete fill.  I finished out the piece I started testing the gold on, and now it just needs the gold, GST, and spangles.  The fill, she is done.

( Pictures! In detail! )

We choose to embroider and do the other things in this decade, not because they are easy, but because they look abso-frickin'-lutely cool.*

Sadly, my calculations indicate a distinct possibility that my new jacket will not be finished in this decade.  Big surprise there, I know.

( I need an army of mice to do my sewing for me... )

This is what the overall frame with the pomegranate and daffodil look like right now:

( Cut, because it's pictures, and I don't want to clutter my friends' list... )